GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| scourge | whip |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |